Bonnie Erbe

By Bonnie Erbe, Thomas Jefferson Street blog

I'm the first one to criticize the Obama administration when it does something untoward, or to disagree with any of its policies that I view as off the liberal deep end. But White House Communications Director Anita Dunn's comments about Fox News Channel are factually accurate, plain and simple. Fox News is nothing more than a Republican/conservative cheat sheet. Even Fox fans have the intellectual capacity to understand that concept. They wouldn't be watching if they weren't wingers (or liberals or moderates wishing to get clued in on how the right wing "thinks" if indeed it really does.)

Does Fox put liberals on its air to balance so-called debates on issues? Of course it does—how interesting would it be to watch two conservatives agree with each other? So why bother mounting a counterattack, as Fox executives have done, if the network were anything but what it is? It's befuddling.

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